Africa

Violent clashes between Pygmy and Bantu people have erupted once again in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a provincial governor said on Wednesday, appealing for calm. But Richard Ngoyi Kitamala, the governor of Tanganyika, denied reports that there had been “killings” in Muswaki, about 70km east of the provincial capital …

Boko Haram jihadists have raided three villages in northeastern Nigeria, killing five people and setting fire to several homes and fields, residents told AFP on Thursday. Armed members of the extremist group on Wednesday sped into the villages of Huyum, Sabongarin Huyum and Wasada on motorbike, killing five villagers and …

An Egyptian security official says the death toll from the previous night’s militant attack in Sinai, which included a suicide car bombing, has reached 11. No one has claimed responsibility for the assault, in which eight troops were initially reported killed.

UNSMIL expressed regrets over the flare-up of tribal fighting in Sebha which claimed the lives of 20 people and injured over 50 others. The mission welcomed in statement Monday the ongoing reconciliation efforts, appealing to the national and local authorities to prevent further escalations. Head of UNSMIL, Martin Kobler offered …

Khaled Najm, media minister in Libya’s Tobruk-based government, has announced his resignation citing a recent deterioration of security in the eastern city of Benghazi. The move came in the immediate wake of a bombing that rocked a Benghazi school on Monday, which left three people dead — including two children …

French Foreign Minister, Jan mark Airolt, expressed concern over developments in Libya, Yemen, and Iraq. The French Minister ruled out in statement quoted by the Algerian news agency, Monday a military solution to the Libyan, Yemeni and the Iraqi crisis. He said fighting daesh should only be through the military …

The Algerian Minister for Maghreb Affairs, African Union and the Arab League, Abdelkader Messahel, met Monday with the US ambassador in Algeria Joan A. Polaschik to discuss the situation in Libya.

A Kenyan official says police officers killed four suspected extremists at the Somali border, a region hard-hit by recent attacks by the Somali extremist group al-Shabab. North Eastern Regional Coordinator Mohamud Saleh said on Sunday that police killed the men while ambushing a group of about 20 suspected members of …

An Egyptian appeals court on Tuesday quashed one of two life sentences handed down against ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi since his 2013 overthrow, his lawyer and a judicial source said. It is the second appeals victory in a week for Morsi, whose Muslim Brotherhood movement has been blacklisted and …

Forces loyal to Libya’s government of National Accord said on Monday that they are closing in on the last Islamic State group fighters in the coastal city of Sirte. The pro-GNA forces said they managed to dislodge ISIS fighters from a fortified school in the Al-Giza Al-Bahriya district that the …